2023 Presidency: Atiku, Obi or Tinubu? Buhari’s aide gives statistical tips on how election will be won or lost
The Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Digital and New Media, Tolu Ogunlesi says the pathway to winning the 2023 presidential polls is by voting numbers per zone (and possible turnout).
He made this submission in a tweet sighted by Legit.ng on Wednesday, February.
The trio of Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu has been tipped as the major forerunners for the 2023 presidential polls.
Ogunlesi stated that election is not won only by percentage of voters rather by the percentage of votes per zone.
He tweet reads:
“Any Presidential poll that does not somehow account for voting numbers per zone (and possible turnout) is a sham, plain and simple.
“I repeat: Any poll that focuses ONLY on % of votes, without population-weighting, is a scam.”
He further revealed that the six geo-political zones that makes up the federation differs in voting population while noting that elections victory cannot only be determined by an absolute national percentage because of the difference in voting population.
Ogunlesi said:
“The 6 geo-political zones of Nigeria do not have equal voting numbers, or turnout patterns. As a Poll you can ONLY rely exclusively on an absolute national % (i.e. simple average of the six regional %) as determinant of winner, if and only if all zones had EQUAL numbers/patterns
